Next day in hospital

Last night Raphael spiked up to 40 degrees but Paracetamol helped a lot. During the morning his temperature rose above 38 a couple more times in the morning but Nurofen and more Paracetamol helped keep this under control.

Unfortunately we weren't there for part of the day to manage the taping of his NGT. This gave him the opportunity to pull out his NGT... twice. In desperation the nurses resorted to making a little boxing glove for one of his hands to stop him from pulling out the tube a third time in one day. He had actually kept his tube in for a record five weeks before pulling it out twice today; one more week and it would have been actually due for a change.

He is still not eating much and still coughing a bit but it was good to see that his temperature stayed normal all afternoon.